AbdulKarim Halak MEDI311 Film Diary #1 Citizen Kane October 10, 2013 Citizen Kane, by Orson Welles, is one of the world’s most famous conventional masterpieces, with its outstanding cinematic and narrative techniques that captures the essence of this film that caused many arguments before it the release date. It seemed to capture the life of a particular man, William Randolph Hearst, “a powerful newspaper magnate and publisher”(Citizen Kane (1941)). The films intricate and gloomy theme of an unsuccessful man is being conveyed from numerous perspectives delivering an ambiguous and puzzling portrait of Charles Foster Kane. The film expresses a provocative tragic story of a poor, misfortunate boy taken from his family to be raised by a banker. The boy then inherits a fortune only to become an egotistical newspaperman.
Book Report: Murder at the Margin The novel Murder at the Margin, written by Marshall Jevons is a murder mystery solved by economic theories and principles. The main character, Henry Spearman is an economics professor from Harvard who can rational anything based on the principles he has studied over the years. Spearman has the ability to relate anything to the economic principle law of demand. He defines this principle by saying consumers buy more of a good when prices are lower and less when its prices are higher. After two high profile murders take place in Cinnamon Bay, Spearman begins looking at the case through the eyes of an economist.
devil in the white city: burnham vs. holmes Erik Larson writes, “Beneath the gore and smoke and loom, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging in the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow. Larson’s purpose is to compare and contrast the two main characters, Daniel Burnham and Henry H. Holmes. One is a successful architect and the other is a successful serial killer. Burnham was the famous architect that built the World’s Fair in less than two years. Holmes is America’s first serial killer.
Chris Robinson Lit cmp, 6th 11/14/12 Author report on Ray Bradbury Mr. Bradbury was a fiction based man who was born on August 22, 1920 and died on June 5, 2012, at the age of 91. His most famous novel is “Fahrenheit 451,” published in 1953. Named for the temperature at which paper catches on fire, the novel shows a near-future society in which firemen don’t extinguish fires but instead burn books. This illustrates the content of which common people consumed by nonstop television and advertising which effects there society. It was said that Mr. Bradbury was the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream.
Charles Dickens also wrote ironies very well. Like when Mr. Lorry talks about himself being a business man. “Miss Mannett, I am a man of business…” (pg. 19 Mr. Lorry) Towards the end of the novel Mr. Lorry becomes friends and business like, so the story he told in the beginning completely flips. For another example Jerry Cruncher is not really an honest tradesman but a sneaky resurrection man.
Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston Massachusetts, but his legacy was cut short, passing at age 40. He was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, best known for his tales of mystery. “He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing
The Mysterious Bartleby “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” by Herman Melville, is a distinguished story describing the life of an ordinary man in the business world on Wall Street. Although this story can be taken in more ways than one, depending on the reader, Melville intended that the reading should only be interpreted one way, by using different literary elements which builds suspense on what will happen next. Bartleby explores themes of alienation through descriptions of characters and settings that call to mind prisons and imprisonment. Bartleby is hired at a law firm where he works as a copyist for a Lawyer and with three other coworkers. The narrator, which is the Lawyer himself, explains his initial thoughts about Bartleby and explains
The Great Gatsby Essay First published in 1925, The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald received mixed reviews and sold quite poorly. Within the first year his novel had only sold 20,000 copies. Fitzgerald died believing himself to be a failure and his work to be forgotten. However, the novel experienced a revival and became a part of American high school curriculum. Today, The Great Gatsby is “probably safe now to say a classic of twentieth-century American fiction.” according to the New York Times.
Deepa Wassenberg MGMT 338 Business Etbics January 29 2013 Immanuel Kant: Contribution to Business Ethics Immanuel Kant was born on April 22, 1724 at Konigsberg, East Prussia. Kant lost his parents quite early in life. He also suffered some physical deformity, which made his stature noticeably small. Immanuel Kant was generally regarded as the last major philosopher of the early modern period and one of history's most influential thinkers. His ethical theories were presented in two works.
Interpretation Typhoon (by Theodore Dreiser) The text under analysis is taken from the story “Typhoon” written by a celebrated author Theodore Dreiser. Being an outstanding American practitioner of a literary movement called naturalism, he adhered very much to depicting plausible everyday reality in his novels and stories as opposed to romanticism. Among other themes, his works dwell upon the new social problems that had arisen in rapidly industrializing America such as poverty, explicit behaviour and what not. The choice of topics takes root from his family life as well. His father, a German immigrant, was an unemployed millworker, which resulted in his stern and preconceived attitude towards everything American and bad living conditions.